This day is for iris flowers in Owlnature. 🙂 Irises in our garden are Siberian irises.
Absolutely one of my favourite perennials, these royals… 🙂
-Leena
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A few flowers today (+my “pic page” usernames)
I took a little tour with my camera in our garden today, for the newly opened up flowers for this summer. Today is actually a surprisingly warm day.
The Park lilacs or Hungarian lilacs actually have been flowering already for a while now. Our park lilacs don’t have so many flowers this year – last year they were loaded…
Purple-flowering raspberry is, too, planted by the previous owners of this house. I like it! 🙂
Iris. We have these in two different spots in the garden. The other ones were planted by the previous owners of this house, the other bunch by us – we brought them from eastern Finland last summer, my boyfriend’s mother gave them to us. This flower is of that bunch. I love irises, more pics of them later, hopefully. 🙂 Only two flowers have opened up so far, but there’s so many buds.
Daisy. Daisies are already a bit wild in our garden. – Some of them here, some of them there. One here, one there.
Aaand, I love the “pic pages” or apps… Here’s my favourites, and where Owlnature is… I am… so, my usernames: Instagram: owlnatureleena (I’ve used Instagram before, but at this very moment Owlnature doesn’t have any pics there yet, as I just created the account.) Pinterest: owlnature (The same story as with Instagram.) We Heart It: owlnature (This account I started using already in winter.) Yees, maybe I have the real widgets, too, in the sidebar of my blog some day… 🙂
-Leena
About the plum tree and taking care of it
Our plum tree today. My first blog post about the tree here.
The flowers disappeared quickly and our tiny tree really started to grow some fruits! At least started, and some of the diminutive green fruits have already grown bigger. But still a lot of waiting, though… The plums in this tree should not be that big when they are ripe, but they should be very blue.
So, still hoping to get the two plum fruits that I’m dreaming of this year… 😉
And about taking care of this tree:
The net is keeping our forest rabbit away, although we have our lettuces growing in open ground, and the bunny hasn’t eaten them, but still… And we had a tar moat made out of a plastic container around the trunk of the tree, on the ground, to keep the ants away. That was really necessary and worked very well!
And the aphids, we keep them away with the mixture of water and the traditional Finnish washing liquid, pine soap, called Mäntysuopa – works like a charm! 🙂
Now just waiting what happens to the tiny green fruits…
The next blog post about the tree here.
-Leena
Mountain cornflowers, petunia and their friends
Yesterday’s flower pics.
Centaurea montana or mountain cornflower or perennial cornflower or mountain bluet. These, too, are flowers that we have on many different spots in our garden, thank you, the previous owners of this house! I like these. 🙂
The tiny yellow flowers on the background are meadow buttercups, very wild in our garden… 🙂
More petunia pics. Now the lovely colour combination can be seen a bit better…
In the same pot with the petunia is another flower, too. It was there when we got this, and I don’t know what this flower is, haven’t found the answer. I call it the white crown flower…
…or the white flower crown…
EDIT: The answer came to me in a garden store, I saw these flowers there with a name tag. 🙂 This is verbena, rautayrtti in Finnish.
Red campion or red catchfly. A bit wild in our garden as well. And a bit everywhere, for example around the rapids.
On Friday by the lake Pyhäjärvi. It was raining a bit as I took this pic.
-Leena
Coffee, starflowers, forget-me-nots
Coffee along with some charming tiny flowers today…
…and another one of our many Ibiza lizards… 😀 This one left with us from the Hippy Market Punta Arabí in May 2014.
Stars in the woods beside our garden. Arctic starflower or chickweed wintergreen. There really was a starry ground in the woods, now many of the flowers have already started to fade away… There are also lingonberry flowers in the pic above.
Such a beautiful forest flower the starflower…
And another one of my favourites, wood forget-me-not. We have a bed of forget-me-nots at the back of our garden. Precious. 🙂 I hope they still bloom for some time…
-Leena
By the home rapids, a couple of peony buds & a petunia flower
I took some pics again by our home rapids, the Kauttuankoski rapids, yesterday evening when we visited it. Here is my previous blog post about the rapids.
The Kauttuankoski rapids and so many faces… In the previous blog post I was mostly on the other side of the rapids, in this post I’m on the opposite side, and a bit further, too.
Some evening light already in these pics, but the nights are so light now, too, this time of the year in Finland – in southern Finland as well, but it’s a whole different story in northern Finland these days – it’s so much lighter there at night, and in the northernmost point of the country, the sun doesn’t set at all… Magicall… 😉
The ruins of an old mill on the right.
Water flows under the ruins, too
There are some very old trees. I tried to take pics of the massive trunks, but these pics can’t exactly tell how big these lovely trees really are. And they are mossy from the other side. Like in a fairytale. 🙂
From the bridge.
The wind is still blowing like crazy, but I managed to take a pic of our petunia. I love this colour combination! (More pics of this later, hopefully.)
I tried to take pics of our mountain cornflowers, too, for this blog post, but the wind was too much. 😀
And a couple of peony buds. On our front yard in the pic above and on the back yard in the pic below.
-Leena
Early summer in full swing
So now the first blog post here in Owlnature when it’s already officially summer. 🙂 The summer has advanced very quickly in nature and in garden this year. I feel that it’s all been much quicker than a year ago… I mean, the apple flowers for example – it was like a *imagine some sound of magic here* and they were all gone, just as quickly as they came…
First a pic from yesterday… I was sitting on a swing and almost didn’t take a pic at all, but some… magic made me grab my camera, and I’m glad I did! – It was a nice moment to sit on a tire swing by our lake Pyhäjärvi here in Satakunta region.
A moment by the lake Köyliönjärvi over a week ago.
The rest of the pics of this post are from last week.
Globeflowers in our garden. The previous owners of this house have planted these in different spots in the garden. Thanks! One of my favourite perennials.
About the weather lately… last week was hot, but then it became cold – well, you have to have the decent balance of weather here in Finland. 🙂 Yesterday was very nice and today, too, the sun is shining warmly, but the wind is blowing like crazy.
The rest of the pics of this post are pics of lilacs. The first two pics are taken of the lilac bush by the big Norway maple beside our driveway. The lilac flowers, too, are something that seem to like come and go a bit too quickly this summer… but luckily there’s still some time to enjoy the lovely scent of the flowers.
The man who build this house has planted lilacs in three different spots in the garden, and these are only the common lilacs – there are also two bushes of different types of lilacs in our garden, I think they are called park lilacs or Hungarian lilacs and it’s so nice that they bloom a bit later, after the common lilac flowers are already gone…
I somehow always find it a bit difficult to take pics of the lilac flowers, I’m never totally satisfied with my lilac pics. But I encourage and advise everyone, including myself, to take it easy and not to stress about something like the pics, and taking pics, too much. I promote enjoyment and living in the moment, without camera, too! Even when you have a website or a blog! 😀 The right people will enjoy and laugh with you in this life anyway…
Another lilac bush beside the apple trees in the garden.
OK, and now I don’t know what to say anymore… 🙂
Our third lilac bush is beside the woods and a bit under the bush somehow is one of our composts, too. And there are also white lilac flowers, so there are actually two bushes in one. Our other lilac bushes have only violet flowers.
So, still some time to enjoy…
-Leena